Folk Artist & Composer Sam Amidon Announces Tour Dates

Experimental folk artist and composer Sam Amidon has announced new tour dates in support of his latest album, The Following Mountain. The tour is Amidon's first in the US since 2015 and begins in Seattle on September 23 with additional stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Washington, D.C. and more before culminating in New York City on October 10. The US tour is followed soon-after by a European leg that includes performances in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris, Dublin, Amsterdam and more, as well as Amidon's first headlining performance at London's Union Chapel on October 26. See below for complete tour details.

Out now on Nonesuch Records, The Following Mountain represents a new approach for Amidon. He shifts here from his previous norm of re-working traditional folk songs and presents nine wholly original compositions, with some lyrics drawing on traditional sources. Created with producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Regina Spektor) and Amidon's frequent collaborator Shahzad Ismaily, the album features guest appearances by drummer Milford Graves, percussionist Juma Sultan and saxophonist Sam Gendel. It is Amidon's sixth album and follows Lily-O, his 2014 Nonesuch Records collaboration with Bill Frisell.

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Sam Amidon Tour Dates

Sep 1	Jazz Festival Willisau	Willisau, CH
Sep 23	Fremont Abbey Arts Center	Seattle, WA
Sep 24	Mississippi Studios	Portland, OR
Sep 26	Cafe Du Nord	San Francisco, CA
Sep 27	Bootleg Theater	Los Angeles, CA
Sep 29	Daniels Hall	Denver, CO
Oct 3	Colectivo Coffee	Milwaukee, WI
Oct 4	Lincoln Hall	Chicago, IL
Oct 6	The Drake Hotel	Toronto, ON
Oct 8	Songbyrd	Washington, D.C.
Oct 9	World Cafe Live	Philadelphia, PA
Oct 10	Mercury Lounge	New York, NY
Oct 19	Scalateatern Källare	Stockholm, SE
Oct 20	Café Mono	Oslo, NO
Oct 22	Folk å Rock	Malmo, SE
Oct 23	Atlas	Aarhus, DK
Oct 24	Lille Vega	Copenhagen, DK
Oct 26	Union Chapel	London, UK
Oct 28	Forum Freies Theater	Dusseldorf, DE
Oct 29	Nochtspeicher	Hamburg, DE
Oct 30	Privatclub	Berlin, DE
Nov 1	Espace B	Paris, FR
Nov 2	Chäslage	Stans, CH
Nov 4	AB Club	Brussels, BE
Nov 5	Bitterzoet	Amsterdam, NL
Nov 7	Whelan's	Dublin, IE
Nov 8	Cyprus Avenue	Cork, IE

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